While working the horse, a pledget of tow, covered with Pratts Peerless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry] Reference

I said as she turned up my upper lip and tucked a pledget of plastic under it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Space Merchants]

(Syrian incense), a fir — gum imported from Scio, is melted and allowed to cool in the form of a pledget.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Withdraw the needle and press a pledget of cotton-wool over the puncture to ensure closure of the aperture in the vein wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference

And so saying, he lighted a little pledget of tow, previously steeped in turpentine, and, popping it into the tin vessel, clapped it on the head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference

When the intestinal wound is found to be healed, the entire pledget is to be removed and the unhealed openings dressed as in other simple wounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference

Over each wound is placed a pledget of antiseptic cotton-wool or tow, and the whole lightly covered with a bandage soaked in an antiseptic solution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference

The wound is then covered up with a pledget of lint, kept in its place by three or four threads passed through the stitches, and the operation is complete.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference

After discharge of the pus, the cavity remaining should be mopped out with an antiseptic solution, and a pledget of antiseptic tow or other material left in position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference

Then apply a pledget moistened with albumen, a pad and a splint in form of a cross, and over all a long bandage embracing both the arm and the neck and suspending the arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference

Upon the cranium and over the flaps of the scalp, as well as in their angles, the ordinary dressing of albumen is to be applied, covered by a pledget of lint and a suitable bandage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference

In these cases (clearly perceiving that the symptoms were governed by the state of the arms) I applied on the inoculated pustules, and renewed the application three or four times within an hour, a pledget of lint, previously soaked in aqua lythargyri acetati.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

In the lower angle of the wound a pledget of lint for drainage purposes was inlaid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages] Reference

The fastener serves as a pledget for the tissue injury created by the guiding stylet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

(Syrian incense), a fir - gum imported from Scio, is melted and allowed to cool in the form of a pledget.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

This pledget should have a string fastened to it, hanging from the nose in order that it may be easily removed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages] Reference

The surgeon came hurrying up, and dressed the wound with a pledget of linen steeped in oil; and the Maid lay very white and still, almost like one dying or dead, so that we all held our breath in fear.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Heroine of France] Reference

The carotid was tied, but the operation failed to stop the hemorrhage, and I found the surgeons relieving each other every quarter of an hour in holding a pledget of lint on the wound, in a determined effort to save the man's life if it were physically possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Autobiography of a Journalist]

In this circumstance a bandage with a thick compress on the lower part of the belly, by appressing the sides of the uterus on the remaining part of the placenta, is likely to check the hæmorrhage, like the application of a pledget of any soft substance on a bleeding vessel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference